The planning of corona vaccinations in Germany is criticized in many places.
North Rhine-Westphalia imposes a vaccination ban.
The US pharmaceutical company Pfizer is knocking out the next vaccine hammer.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
: The number of
Covid 19 cases
will be high at the beginning of 2021 and there will be a
tough corona lockdown with strict rules
.
In this situation, the hopes rest on the
vaccines against the coronavirus
.
But in many places the
vaccinations against Corona
do not even start
due to missing
vaccine
doses - a mayor from
Hesse
is now venting his anger.
Update from January 21, 4:55 p.m
.: More
bad news from the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer
.
The company is now delivering
fewer ampoules of its corona vaccine
to the ordering countries.
The group justified this on Thursday in an e-mail to the AFP news agency with a statement from the EU medicines authority EMA, according to which
up to six vaccine doses
could be drawn
from each
vial
.
Up
until now
, Pfizer assumed
five doses per ampoule
- and
calculated the number of ampoules to be delivered accordingly
.
The vaccine was developed together with the German company Biontech.
Corona vaccine: Pfizer is now shipping fewer ampoules
"We keep our delivery obligations to the states," emphasized Pfizer.
The orders were "
always based on a total number of cans and not ampoules
".
On January 8, the EMA allowed EU countries to draw six cans from each vial.
However, this requires special syringes, which not all countries have in sufficient numbers.
Update from January 20, 10:50 p.m
.: There are isolated cases of
death after vaccinations against the corona virus
.
There are increasing signs that the dead are old and out of nursing homes.
An authority is in favor of a weighing up (see link).
Corona vaccinations in Germany: NRW imposes vaccination freeze in hospitals
Update from January 20, 10:24 a.m
.: The state of
North Rhine-Westphalia
(NRW) imposes an
immediate vaccination ban in hospitals
that are
supplied
with
Biontech vaccine
.
The reasons are delivery problems, according to an email from the Ministry of Health, which the German Press Agency has received.
A ministry spokesman confirmed the authenticity of the letter on Wednesday.
Several media had previously reported.
Pfizer announced at short notice last Friday that it would reduce the delivery quantities of the Biontech corona vaccine.
Modifications at a plant in Belgium are the reason for this.
The federal and state governments had criticized the short-term information on this.
NRW had actually planned to make a vaccination offer to "all employees in hospitals in hospital areas particularly affected by Corona (e.g. emergency rooms, COVID-19 wards)" from January 18.
NRW imposes an immediate vaccination ban in clinics
Due to the delayed delivery of the corona vaccine from Biontech, North Rhine-Westphalia is postponing the start of vaccinations for people over 80 who live at home.
The
53 vaccination centers
in the state will
only start operating on February 8th
- a week later than previously planned, as a spokesman for the NRW Ministry of Health said on Wednesday at the request of the German Press Agency.
There will be no first vaccinations in the coming week, but
second vaccinations
should be carried out in hospitals and inpatient care facilities as planned.
80,000 vaccine doses
are planned for this, a spokeswoman for the State Health Office in Düsseldorf told the AFP news agency.
Corona vaccinations in Germany: Mayor rages because of vaccination disaster in his city - "There has been toil"
First report from January 19, 2021
Munich / Hanau - Difficult fight against
Covid-19
: The criticism of the planning and organization of
coronavirus
vaccinations in Germany
continues.
Now a mayor from Hessen has given free rein to his displeasure.
Coronavirus vaccinations in Germany: six of 28 vaccination centers open in Hesse
Specifically: In
Hanau near Frankfurt am Main
, a
vaccination center
that would actually be ready for use is empty - and it will probably not be able to open in the coming weeks.
Because: The
vaccine
against the
insidious Corona
is also missing here.
“The employees worked hard to get it finished.
Many citizens do not understand that it has not been used since December 11th.
I don't understand either, ”said
Hanau's mayor Claus Kaminsky (SPD)
on
Welt live
.
The background: This Tuesday (January 19) opened the
first six of 28 (planned) vaccination centers in Hesse, but Hanau
was not one of them.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Further criticism of the planning of Covid-19 vaccinations
Not only that they open comparatively late with a view to the first vaccinations on December 27th, the
other 22 vaccination centers
should not start their important work until February 9th due to a lack of vaccines.
According
to many politicians and experts, every day
counts in the
Corona crisis
.
Elsewhere in
Hesse
,
too, things
are not going
smoothly
: The
vaccination center in Wiesbaden
has started work.
Up to 1000 people could be vaccinated here every day.
Could.
But there are significantly fewer.
There is a lack of sufficient vaccine doses.
(pm)
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